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Charles Laughton • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Orson Welles • Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Crime • Film Noir • Mystery
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Billy Wilder • Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olson
Drama • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Robert Arthur, Jan Sterling
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
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Nicholas Ray • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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Alexander Mackendrick • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
Drama • Film Noir • Media Satire
8
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Caper • Crime Thriller
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Glenn Ford
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
10
Robert Aldrich • Starring: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart
Detective Film • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
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John Huston • Starring: Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe
Caper • Crime Thriller • Crime
12
Samuel Fuller • Starring: Thelma Ritter, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters
Femme Fatale • Film Noir • Political Thriller
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Jules Dassin • Starring: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers
Con Artist / Hustler • Crime Drama • Crime
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Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Gerard Buhr, Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey
Caper • Crime Drama • Crime
15
Joseph H. Lewis • Starring: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
Crime Thriller • Crime • Femme Fatale
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
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Rudolph Maté • Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler
Drama • Film Noir • Mystery
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Otto Preminger • Starring: Bert Freed, Gary Merrill, Dana Andrews
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Henry Hathaway • Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
Femme Fatale • Film Noir • Psychological Thriller
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Richard Fleischer • Starring: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
Film Noir • Police Detective Film • Psychological Thriller
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William Wyler • Starring: Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Fredric March
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Crime Thriller
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Elia Kazan • Starring: Zero Mostel, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance
Chase Movie • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Otto Preminger • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Todd
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Joseph H. Lewis • Starring: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
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Ida Lupino • Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Crime Thriller • Crime • Drama
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Nicholas Ray • Starring: Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino, Ward Bond
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Phil Karlson • Starring: John Payne, Preston Foster, Coleen Gray
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis
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William Wyler • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix
Based-on-Theatre • Crime Drama • Crime
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David Miller • Starring: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
Film Noir • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Frank Silvera, Phil Stevenson, David Vaughan
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Robert Wise • Starring: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters
Caper • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
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Mark Robson • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling
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Irving Lerner • Starring: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi
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Lewis Allen • Starring: Frank Sinatra, James Gleason, Nancy Gates
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Roy Ward Baker • Starring: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft
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Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft
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Joseph Losey • Starring: David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, John Miljan
Film Noir • Psychological Thriller • Serial Killer Film
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe, William Norton Bailey
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Family Drama
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
Drama • Film Noir • Newspaper Film
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
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Don Siegel • Starring: Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Richard Jaeckel
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Samuel Fuller • Starring: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi
Crime Drama • Crime • Detective Film
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Bretaigne Windust • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia
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John Cromwell • Starring: Eleanor Parker, Hope Emerson, Agnes Moorehead
Drama • Film Noir • Prison Film
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Joseph Losey • Starring: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
Drama • Film Noir • Psychological Thriller
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Phil Karlson • Starring: Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek
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André De Toth • Starring: Gene Nelson, Ted de Corsia, Charles Bronson
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John Farrow • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
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Robert Aldrich • Starring: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey
Drama • Film Noir • Marriage Drama
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer
Courtroom Drama • Crime Drama • Crime
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Robert Siodmak • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern
Crime • Drama • Film Noir
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Samuel Fuller • Starring: James Shigeta, Glenn Corbett, Victoria Shaw
Drama • Film Noir • Melodrama
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Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Arthur Franz, Adolphe Menjou, Gerald Mohr
Crime • Film Noir • Police Detective Film
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Gerd Oswald • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr
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Anthony Mann • Starring: Paul Kelly, Jean Hagen, James Craig
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Roy Rowland • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill
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William Dieterle • Starring: Don DeFore, Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott
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Norman Foster • Starring: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith
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Phil Karlson • Starring: John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Frank Faylen
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Andrei Tarkovsky, Marika Beiku, Aleksandr Gordon • Starring: Yuli Fait, Aleksandr Gordon, Valentin Vinogradov
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Mitchell Leisen • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl
Drama • Film Noir • Romance
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Gerd Oswald • Starring: Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward, Virginia Leith
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Richard Quine • Starring: Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, Kim Novak
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John Farrow • Starring: Claude Rains, Faith Domergue, Maureen O'Sullivan
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Vincent Sherman • Starring: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
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Ida Lupino • Starring: Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmond O'Brien
Drama • Female-Directed Film • Film Noir
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John Cromwell • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan
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Rudolph Maté • Starring: William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald, Nancy Olson
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
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Richard Fleischer • Starring: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman
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Phil Karlson • Starring: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
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Cy Endfield • Starring: Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Lloyd Bridges
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John Berry • Starring: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
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Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Crime Drama
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John Sturges • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker
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Irving Rapper • Starring: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams
Based-on-Theatre • British Noir • Crime Drama
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman
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Budd Boetticher • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey
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Robert Wise • Starring: Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan
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Robert Parrish • Starring: Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman
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John Sturges • Starring: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett
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Gordon Douglas • Starring: James Cagney, Barbara Peyton, Helena Carter
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Felix E. Feist • Starring: Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall
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Paul Wendkos • Starring: Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers
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Nicholas Ray • Starring: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott
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Marcel Carné • Starring: Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Crime • Crime Drama
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Nicholas Ray • Starring: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
92
Lewis Gilbert • Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh
Based-on-Theatre • British Noir • Film Noir
93
Vincent Sherman • Starring: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby
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William Dieterle • Starring: William Holden, Edmond O'Brien, Alexis Smith
Crime • Detective Film • Drama
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Richard Quine • Starring: Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy
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Joseph M. Newman • Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger
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Allan Dwan • Starring: Arlene Dahl, Ted de Corsia, Rhonda Fleming
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Lewis Allen • Starring: Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart, Jack Webb
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Harold Daniels • Starring: Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore
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Robert Parrish • Starring: Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley
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